I'm looking for a few (4-8) people in the SF Bay area who might want to be on an email list for buying coffee in bulk, but in this case bulk would be 10# minimum and 30# maximum plus or minus. Anyone in Marin County, Berkeley and San Francisco would be particularly welcome because it is convenient.

I don't know if this idea will work, but I'm curious if rather than shipping the coffee, we'd try to meet or drop off.

For example, I'm thinking of buying a couple coffees from Coffeeshrub. I might also buy a sack of Bob-O-Link which I'd have to get in Southern California, maybe in September. I'd pick them up (or someone closer might) and we'd split them over the next couple weeks. I'm also starting to bring in some small farm Kona that might work similarly. I would hope that others would develop their own sources and share coffee similarly. All at cost.

I bought a bag of Sumatra a few weeks ago and quickly shared off half of it (I hope those how got it liked it-- I do. I'm using it mostly as drip and mostly mixed 50-50 with a Brasilian I got from GCBC). It wasn't huge trouble to mail it, but maybe we could dispense with that part if we're conveniently located. Or do a bit of both.

If anyone's interested, pm me your email address (and physical address) and I'll send an email out to those who responded when I'm going to buy something or to gauge interest. There are several importers in the area and lots of possibilities. I'm not an SO fanatic, not dogmatic about this and if just one or two people were interested it would measure up as successful.

dan

Hmm, I wish I was in the Bay Area. Although I am thinking about buying a bag of BobOLink myself.

BTW, on your recommendation in the other thread I got Sumatra/Sulawesi samples from Red Goni and bought a bag of the Red Badger. It should be down here in a couple of days.

I'm interested, but I only go thru about 1.5-2 lbs a week. So I couldn't commit to buying 10 -30 lbs very frequently until I deplete some of my stock on hand. I've always ordered my greens from SM, but I'd love the chance to expand my horizons. I did this recently, returning from El Salvador and Peru with about 50lbs of greens ( high altitude Santa Ana ES). I'd even be happy to share some, in trade, or just give some away. I wont go thru it all fast enough to stay interested in it for too long.

I'd be down for meeting up with likeminded coffee fans around the south peninsula as well. I've been an amateur roaster for just shy of 10 years, but I'm brand new to home espresso, so I have a lot to learn and absorb.

I'd certainly be interested, though I use a fairly small amount - about 1 lb/week. My home is in Portola Valley (next to Palo Alto). I get to Berkeley and SF every month or so, so I could arrange a pickup. Incidentally, I'll be in So. Cal a few times over the next couple of months, so perhaps I could pick up the Bob-O-Link. I'm quite new to Roasting (using a Behmor 1600) but really enjoying it.

-Steve

Brazilian

I'm picking up a bag next week or the week after that I bought from Knutsen. If you want more info, send me a PM. I'll probably want to split off 1/2 of the bag. 4.10

dan

I bought a bag of Vargem Grande from Knutsen a couple weeks ago. This isn't a COE coffee, though they did win the COE about ten years ago and their coffee is first rate.

I'm going to sell about half the bag in 20 pound increments at my cost ($4.10) if anyone is interested. I have not tried it as espresso yet-- but will soon. I roasted a batch on the 16th and realized that it is easy to over do it and the latest batch I stopped before 2d crack.

PM me if you are interested. I go into SF once a week, usually in the morning, if anyone wants to pick it up or if you live in Marin...

dan